Re: [ANNOUNCE] Prerelease: Git for Windows v2.11.0-rc0

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 11, 2016, 16:54 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1611111750580.3746@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <1784ec06-2557-aa99-ead8-b8997b68d8d9@atlas-elektronik.com>

Hi Stefan,

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com wrote:

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> Am 05.11.2016 um 10:50 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
> > Dear Git users,
> > 
> > I finally got around to rebase the Windows-specific patches (which seem to
> > not make it upstream as fast as we get new ones) on top of upstream Git
> > v2.11.0-rc0, and to bundle installers, portable Git and MinGit [*1*]:
> > 
> > https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.11.0-rc0.windows.1
> > 
> > It would be really nice if those of you who have access to Windows [*2*]
> > could try it out and report bugs before v2.11.0 final.
> 
> I tried that version on 64bit Win7.
> Somehow the PATH env. variable does no longer get set correctly.

You are absolutely correct. There was a change in MSYS2 that I missed: by default, it re-sets the PATH to be minimal now. This is obviously not what we want.

I worked around this in the usual way [*1*].

Thank you so much for testing. It would have been really awful if Git for Windows v2.11.0 would have shipped with this bug.

Unfortunately I have to re-build and re-package the installers I promised to upload today; Hopefully I will get around to upload the fixed ones soon.

Will keep you posted, Dscho

Footnote *1*: https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/commit/db24c0378adf33c07d6c053f39f04a6a025150cc